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Are you head of a 1-person development office - or a nonprofit executive director - needing to do it all "faster, smarter, better?" Create sustainable funding systems for your organization in 20 hours a week or less. Pamela is author of Five Days to Foundation Grants and the creator of Simple Development Systems, a member of the AFP, a contributing member to CharityChannel & a guest panelist of the Chronicle of Philanthropy.

If you’re like me, you don’t have a lot of time to spare. Every day my workload grows. Finding the time to get to my own projects is presenting more and more of a challenge. And every day a new blog pops up in the Internet stratosphere – new opinions, new cutsie names and logos and people...

There’s an old adage (cliche’?) that “you get what you pay for.”
Try telling that to nonprofit organizations.
Several years back I worked with a small nonprofit agency with an annual budget of approximately half a million dollars. Early on in my role as development director – and throughout...

If Paula Dean provides an example of how a larger than life personality and killer branding can overcome mediocre email marketing, Cesar Millan is a classic example of how an equally big personality gets email marketing right.
If you’re not familiar with Cesar, star of the National Geographic show,...

A recent joint study by Convio, Edge Research and Sea Change Strategies, “Early Signals on Mobile Philanthropy: Is Haiti the Tipping Point?”pointed to some striking statistics on text giving. Prior to January 12, 2010, “little more than $1 million had been raised via mobile text.” ...

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